Maurice Gustave Benoît Choisy (29 June 1897 – 19 June 1966) was a French
mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...
and
lichenologist. He was a member of the
Botanical Society of France, the
Mycological Society of France, and the . He was president of the botanical section of the latter society from 1949 to 1950.
Species named after Choisy include ''
Dermatocarpon choisyi'' ;
''
Haematomma choisyi'' ;
and ''
Lecidea choisyi'' .
Selected publications
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See also
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:Taxa named by Maurice Choisy
References
1897 births
1966 deaths
French mycologists
French lichenologists
20th-century French scientists
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